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Meanings of skin and bones in inglês

A person who is unusually thin and scrawny.

Usage of skin and bones in inglês
1
Remove the skin and bones, and cut the codfish into small squares.
Simple Italian Cookery
2
Keep the skin and bones for use in soups, braises and stocks.
Radio NZ
3
After drying, remove the skin and bones and flake with a fork.
How to Cook Fish
4
Her limbs, hands and feet were completely wasted, just skin and bones.
News.com.au
5
She lost all her hair, and was just withered skin and bones.
How to make love like a porn star
6
The old man who was their leader was just skin and bones.
Lonesome dove
7
Take any kind of cooked fish and free it of skin and bones.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
8
Separate the remnants of a baked bluefish into flakes, discarding skin and bones.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties / With Fifty Illust...
9
When I dine I want something more than skin and bones.
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
10
He is nothing but skin and bones and surely cannot live much longer.
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
11
He's nothing but skin and bones; he has pissed his tallow.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
12
His aging skin and bones remembered that southern climate with longing.
The last page
13
She was skin and bones and close to the end of the line.
The reversal
14
She was pretty, all skin and bones, blossoming into someone beautiful.
Sons of the Oak
15
He looked to be a hundred, all skin and bones, withered and leathery.
Heat Rises
16
The child was fourteen now, but she was skin and bones.
The thirteenth tale: a novel